Private and voluntary nursery providers say this is only fair asmaintained settings have access to more government funding for training,and making the cash available to workers in schools would reduce theamount for the private sector.
The Government specifically says the transformation fund is aimed atreducing some of the inequalities between the private and voluntarysector and the maintained sector.
But those working in schools say it is unfair that they can't access thesame funding as people working in private nurseries.
One nursery nurse who works with children aged three to five in a schoolsetting, who asked not to be named, told Children Now: "I applied to dothe EYPS but I was told I couldn't do it because I am based in a schooland there isn't any funding."
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